The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-02-09
Address Of Mr.. Parnell on the Relations Between
Landlords and Tenants.
He Avoids Absolute Approval Of the Principle
Of the Plan Of Campaign,
And Denounees the Assertion That the Irish
Are Not Law-Abiding People.
of the Pope's Advocacy of the Prus-
sian Military Bill-Notes.

LONDON, Feb. Sir James Ferguson,
Parliamentary Secretary for the foreign
office, stated in the House of Commons this
evening that the correspondence between
Great Britain and the United States, relative
to the Canadian fisheries question, would in
a short time be laid before Parliament. The
correspondence, he said, contains full infor-
nation about the history of the whole affair
down to very recent date A dispatch
from the Dominion Government containing
suggestions as to the modus vivend; between
Canada and the United States is now on its
way to London. The Imperial Government
could not, therefore, send proposals to
Washington until the Canadian dispatch
was received and considered.
Right Hon. II. G. Raikes, Postmast- General,
in responding to inquiries said that under
the new transatlantic postal contracts the
Cunard and Inman Steamship Companies
carried mails at the rate Of three shillings
per pound for letters, and three pence per
pound for papers, whereas under former con-
tracts the prices were four shillings for let
ters and four pence for papers. The new
arrangement also gives four mail transporta-
lions per week besides the extra services of
specially inscribed letters by the steamships
Alaska, Arizona and the City of Rome. The
new contracts run thirteen months begin
ming March next.
Mr.. Parnell moved his amendment to the
dOuT6SS IN reply 10 the queen ) speech.
The amendment is as follows: THE rela-
tiOns between the owners and Occupiers of
land has not been seriously disturbed in the
cases of those who granted their tenants such
attachments as were demanded by the prices
OF agricultural and pastoral produce. The
remedy for the crisis in Irish agrarian affairs
will be found not in the increased stringency
of criminal procedure or in the pursuit OF
such novel, doubtful and unconstitutional
measures as those recently taken by Her
Majesty's Government, but in such a reform
OF the law and system of government as will
satisfy and secure the confidence OF the Irish
people"
Mr.. Parnell maintained that if the bill for
the stopping of evictions, which he intro
duced last session, had been passed the con-
dition of Ireland would have been greatly
improved. The operations of the measure
would have efiectually prevented the pres
ent disturbed relations between landlords
and tenants. The blame for the present
serious position of Irish domestic affairs
rested with the Government. The Govern
ment, despite this, seemed about to renew its
mistake OF attempting coercion in Ireland,
The speaker solemnly warned the Govern
ment that II IL again tried coercion they
would again fail, as it had always failed
when trying that policy. Coercion would
never bring about better state of affairs in
Ireland or assist in establishing peace
full relations between the two coun-
tries. Cries: "0hi 0hr' and cheers from
the Irish members If the Governments pro-
posed alteration of the criminal procedure
acts meant an attack on the rights of Irish
men, its immediate result would be that Sir
Michael Hicks Beach, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, and the Marquis of Londonderry
would find themselves rapidly descending
an inclined plane, and would soon come ask
ing Parliament for more coercion. Sir
Michael Hicks wished to attack the
authorities of the plan of campaign. He
thought 10 crush the plan by muzzling
his oppoBents and pulling them into Jail
All past experience had shown that the
work of SUPPRESSION would only begin when
such things were done, for secret societies
would spring up and agrarian and political
crimes would revive in their worst
forms. The Government had already been
guilty of unprecedented action in the man
ner in which it conducted the prosecution
OF John Dillon. 1t had been equally arbi-
trary in the methods employed to suppress
the Sligo meetings and in the adoption of the
methods of striking off juries IN such way
as to exclude the Catholics.
The speaker asked If any government could
expect q nation three-fourths of whose pop-
ulation were Catholics would be content to
have no representation of their faith in the
jury trials of their country.
Referring to the Glenbeigh evictions, Mr..
Parnell declared that the landlords gave their
tenants month only in which to find five
years rent, arrears and costs. The ultimate
offer made by the landlords, to take half
years rent, looked generous, but the costs
involved amounted to over two years rent.
The National League, Mr.. Parnell con-
tinued, never interfered until the work of
eyictions was in iull swing. AS one who
had no responsibility in bringing forward
the plan OF campaign he could speak freely
upon it. Many tenants who now had a roof
over their heads would have been cast out
upon the bare hillsides but for the plan. The
reduction in the number of evictiOns for the
last quarter were mainly due to the plan.
The Government waited two months before
declaring the plan Illegal. Was it Illegal?
That remained to be seen. In the mean
while he attached no importance to the as
sertion of illegality. The Government talked
of the robbery OF the landlords, forgetting
that almost every title to Irish land was
founded upon wholesale robbery and con-
fiscation. The bulk of the improvements
made by the tenants had been seized by the
landlords, who had long been robbing the
tenants of the products of their labor and
embeZzling their rights. Irish cheers.
Mr.. Parnell went on to condemn coercio n
as al incitement to conspiracy. He tainted
the Tories with the declaration that if they
got the power of oppression equalling
those of the Car they would never be able
20 administer them under constitutional
government, nor so long as Irish members
had seats in Parliament. Cheers Even
now, at the eleventh hour, If the Govern
ment refrained from the policy Of exaspera-
tion, and stopped the infiction OF justice by
legal enactments and q system of repression,
which had done more to demoralize the Ir ish
tenantry than all the Fenian agitators from
New York to San Francisco; If they would
give Ireland power to do for herself, which
England seemed to have neither the wish
ner the power to do, Ireland would show by
her laws tranquility and prosperity, how
unfairly she had been treated in the past,
and how unjust was the assertion that the
Irish were not a alay-ahiding people. [Cheers.l
p. Mcdonald, Nationalist member for
North Sligo, seconded the amendment.
BERLIN, Feb. 7.-Dr. Windthorst, the
leader of the Center (Catholic) party in the
German Reichstag, in political address de-
livered In Cologne yesterday, took a position
Of onnoeifinn To the Pnne,a recently ex.